Officers of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) at Tiruchirappalli airport in Tamil Nadu seized 977 grams of of 24K Gold valued at Rs.70.58 lakh from a passenger arriving from Dubai.
Officials said the the gold was seized in various forms like gold in wax, rhodium plated wires and buckle, washer shaped rings and crude gold jewellery (pendant, payal etc).
The action was taken based on input received by DRI that a person flying to Indore from Sharjah, a city in UAE, would be carrying huge quantities of foreign-origin gold and would attempt to smuggle that into India.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is coordinating the return of red notice subject Shokat Ali from Saudi Arabia, who is wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a gold smuggling case.
Former House Speaker and Vice-Chair of the ruling Maoist Center, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, has been remanded in judicial custody for four days by the Kathmandu District Court.
Last week, the inquiry commission headed by Dilli Raj Acharya, a former High Court chief judge, submitted its report to the home minister, which was later sent to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Mumbai Customs has seized over 2.99 kg of gold valued at Rs 1.72 crore in five different cases at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA).
Nepal Police on Friday apprehended Dipesh Pun, son of former Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun, in connection to the case involving gold smuggling
from China.
Addressing the public campaign here for candidates of the BJP-led NDA, PM Modi that the people of the state will benefit only if the cycle of consecutive Left Democratic Front (LDF) and United Democratic Front (UDF) governments is broken.